Hallsboro, North Carolina.
Typical home $163,623 (-0.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $93 (-10%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $15 -0%
- $163,637$163,623 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Hallsboro$859
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hallsboro, NC fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hallsboro, Columbus County, North Carolina
Hallsboro, in Columbus County, had 382 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Columbus County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Columbus County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Hallsboro is a very small community in Columbus County, North Carolina, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow most years, and summers turn hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, factories, restaurants and hotels also giving people work. Across Columbus County, the biggest workplaces include Columbus County Schools, Columbus Regional Healthcare System and Southeastern Community College. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Waccamaw, a lake, and Lake Waccamaw State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away and make an easy outing for walking or time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Singletary Lake State Park and Lumber River State Park, both protected areas with more room to explore.
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What people in Columbus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbus County had 14,316 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whiteville Northwest weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbus County
- Columbus County SchoolsSchool district683FTE
- Columbus Regional Healthcare SystemGeneral hospital468FTE
- Southeastern Community CollegeTwo-year college335
- Whiteville City SchoolsSchool district309FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- West Fraser ArmourBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts150
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter137
- Liberty Commons Columbus CountySkilled nursing facilities120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,435 people in all across the county; Hallsboro has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hallsboro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Columbus County.
Hallsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hallsboro$163,623
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hallsboro6
Zip codes with a Hallsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hallsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.